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 Coming up this week on TV and radio

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09 March 2018

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HIGHLIGHT: Welling Up: Women and water in the Middle Ages In the first of ten talks recorded at the Free Thinking Festival at the Sage Gateshead, Hetta Howes examines why Margery Kempe believed crying brought her closer to God.

Monday 10.45pm, Radio 3

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 1.55pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Katherine Jenkins meets parents at Basildon Maternity Unit, Essex.

Thursday 9pm (ITV) Four Days That Shook Britain Witnesses, survivors, and emergency-service teams recall the terror attacks between March and June 2017.

 

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service for Mothering Sun­day at Holy Trinity, Westbury-on-Trym.

9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul John McCarthy talks to Dr Sina Hakiman about his imprisonment in Iran, accused of heresy (2/3).

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong An archive service from Chichester Cathedral, first broadcast on 7 June 1972.

Wednesday 11am (R3) On and Off the Valley Lines The lives and stories of those who live along the rail network from Cardiff into the valleys of south Wales.

3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong Recorded at Eton College during the 2017 Eton Choral Course.

8.45pm (R4) Lent Talks An American pastor and activist, the Revd Dr Tammy Garrett-Williams, explores Jesus’s arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, and alternatives to modern-day gun violence (4/6).

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